After the success of their 2015 EP release and tours of the US and Europe, Phoenix, AZ based rappers Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat have returned with a follow up, the aptly titled “Emerald Knights II.”

The album is a stark contrast to the darker themes and deep thought of the first release, and features Ran and Felix going harder than ever on tracks targeting the state of America (If I Could), relationships (Heatstroke and Afraid to Love), and of course, the game.

Wack rappers get it the worst, as tracks like “Emerald Knights A Go, “Rappers In Their Feelings” and “Get Out The 90’s” take playful shots while encouraging their contemporaries and peers to step it up.

I am Random. I am Mega Ran. You are the music.

If you put videogames, the ’80s, hip-hop, soul music, jazz and standup comedy into a blender and hit “puree,” you’d have something close to The Mega Ran Experience.

The Penn State graduate and self-proclaimed “Teacher/Rapper/Hero” made waves by by combining 8-bit videogame sounds and hard-hitting hip-hop tracks, and has become a trailblazer in the budding genres of chiptune and nerdcore hip-hop, while maintaining a career as a middle school teacher.

Ran’s first album “The Call” was a critical success, featuring tracks with some of the underground’s most respected heads. Ran cut his teeth in the city of Philadelphia as a moonlighting emcee and producer, performing, freestyle rapping, producing and later engineering at a studio. After relocating to Phoenix, competing in the Scribble Jam emcee battle championships and taking an early exit, Ran almost quit before he was even started, when a creative lightning bolt struck, and a fire was lit.

Retro videogames were the catalyst. Random began the transformation into Mega Ran, his alter-ego, an ode to the classic video game character Mega Man. After creating a tribute album and receiving an unprecedented level of support and blessing from Capcom to continue, Ran was reborn and became a trailblazer in the budding “nerdcore” and chiptune subgenres, while coining his own term to describe what he had done, “Chip-Hop.”

Dj CUTMAN is a pioneer performer of Chiptune and Video Game Music. Mixing world-class Chiptune composers into epic, dancable sets infused with dubstep, hip-hop, funk and soul, CUTMAN brings years of experience as an audio engineer into the DJ world with tight mixing and meticulous arrangement. Sampling sounds and melodies from classic video games, Dj CUTMAN creates a nostalgic and exciting musical experience that’s unlike any other.

This is an amazing album in which you will discover all the secrets of magic! My team and I have tried to do for you this wonderful music! You will hear the charming sounds of the violin,accordion,cello,traditional percussion, various flutes, and more.I very much hope that you will appreciate the work done! Enjoy!

This is the end.
Space has expanded beyond recognition. All inhabitable planets are so far away from one another that all intelligent life in the universe has lost contact with one another and continued trade and commerce is impossible.

At the known center of the universe, a void forms.

It is almost inconceivably small at first. But as time passes, it grows. Everything the Void touches ceases to exist. First a couple million miles. Then hundreds of millions. Then trillions. All matter within its grasp is eradicated.

As it reaches inhabited planets, the top minds gather to find some way to stop this unending nothingness. All manner of experiments and weaponry are launched into the Void to stop its slow but steady destruction of all matter in the universe.

Nothing works.

As it envelops each person, continent, planet, system and galaxy in the universe, a faint sound is heard across the cosmos. For the first time in recorded history, an actual sound wave echoes through space. Each species hears it in their own language, shortly before being consumed by this unending Void.

‘The dark veil of night descends.
Outcasts to the mainstream; our orders numbers have thrived in recent times.
Finally the time has come to unshackle the beast that mankind has feared for so long.
Relinquish your fear and submit to the cause.
You will find all you need in these audio recordings.
The year is 1988, welcome to Occult 88…’

OCCAMS LASER is my new 80s inspired synthwave/outrun/retro electro musical pseudonym.
I try to create sounds which take you back to a post-apocalyptic version of the 80s where robots run the streets and there is only one way to survive…RUN

Abducted

This EP is based off The Travis Walton UFO incident was an alleged abduction of an American logger by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton reappeared after a five-day search.

According to Walton, on November 5, 1975 he was working with a lumbering crew in the Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona. While riding in a truck with six of his coworkers, they encountered a saucer-shaped object hovering over the ground approximately 110 feet away, making a high-pitched buzz. Walton claims he left the truck and approached it, when a beam of light suddenly appeared from the craft, knocking him unconscious. The other six men were frightened and supposedly drove away. Walton claimed that he awoke in a hospital-like room, being observed by three short, bald creatures. Walton claimed that he fought with them until a human wearing a helmet led Walton to another room, where he blacked out when three other humans put a clear plastic mask over his face. Walton has claimed he remembers nothing else until he found himself walking along a highway, with the flying saucer departing above him.

Vector Hold is a solo project synthwave project by Peter Brian Rice from the San Fransico Bay Area. I am an Aphasia Records artist. My goal is to recreate the synth sound of the 80’s with a modern time machine like twist. My gear set up in an Amiga 500 computer, Windows PC running Reason 7.0, Juno 60 Analog Synth, and various drum machines. Thanks for listening, comments, messages and support!!

Six years in the making, the 9th full-length Color Theory album features the best 11 originals from the three Adjustments EPs, fine-tuned and remastered for optimum audio fidelity.

Your support allows me to keep making music, for which I am profoundly grateful.

80’s synthpop is in my blood, but I mostly listen to EDM these days. My songs draw from both, fleshed out with piano accompaniment. Anyone who took music lessons as a kid calls themselves “classically trained,” but I stuck with it, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance. After graduation, I left Beethoven and Brahms behind to pursue my first musical inspiration, Depeche Mode.

MoTER (Ep)

The Lexian Chronicles Omnibus

Follow Reena as she struggles to cope with brutal violence, loss, betrayal, excessively tough demands made of her as the daughter of the Chieftain and the unwanted attention of a monster. Due to huge demand The Lexian Chronicles is finally available as an omnibus edition collecting all twelve issues, concept and cover art, and never-before-seen commissioned paintings of the highest quality.

(.pdf, 300 pg)

Founded in 2005, Markosia Enterprises Ltd is a multi-faceted publishing company specializing in sequential story-telling. From well known properties like King Kong and Starship Troopers to creator owned works like Dark Mists, The Lexian Chronicles, The Young Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Midnight Kiss and Serpent Wars, Markosia has become known for quality art and stories.
Markosia have recently embarked on some exciting projects away from the comic book market also, including major contributions towards the acclaimed Doppleganger Chronicles series by G. P. Taylor that was expertly adapted by Tony Lee and superbly illustrated by Dan Boultwood. We have also entered the gaming and apps world, with Growing Up Enchanted now available as a game for download via iTunes, the first of many such projects coming to you soon. Our books now feature prominently on iTunes, iBooks, Comics + and DriveThruComics, and will be featuring on many other platforms over the next year, so watch this space for more announcements.